Democracy on screen: NIGHT IS NOT ETERNAL
As part of Democracy on Screen, the monthly documentary and conversation organized in partnership with NYU’s John Brademas Center, we are pleased to present a special screening of NIGHT IS NOT ETERNAL. The screening will be followed by a conversation exploring the film’s themes and the broader issues surrounding human rights, freedom, and U.S.-Cuba relations.
For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows Rosa María Payá, daughter of the five time Nobel Peace Prize nominated activist, Oswaldo Payá, in Rosa’s fight for democratic change in Cuba. Rosa’s narrative is interwoven with Wang’s poignant reflections on her Chinese upbringing and her observations of eroding democratic norms in the U.S., revealing unsettling similarities to the authoritarian system she left behind.
Nanfu Wang
Nanfu Wang is an award-winning Chinese-American documentary filmmaker and NYU alumna. Originally from a rural village in China, her films explore human rights, political freedom, and authoritarianism. Her acclaimed documentaries include Hooligan Sparrow, shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and I Am Another You. She received the International Documentary Association’s Emerging Filmmaker Award in 2016.
Rosa María Payá
Rosa María Payá Acevedo is a Cuban democracy activist and human rights defender. In 2015, she founded the citizen initiative Cuba Decide, a movement in favor of changing the political and economic systems in Cuba towards democracy, through a plebiscite. She is the daughter of the late Oswaldo Payá, the recipient of the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize and two-time nominee of the Nobel Peace Prize, who was killed by the regime in 2012.
